Ivo Balbaert - Rust Essentials

Ivo Balbaert is currently a lecturer of (web) programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen (www.cvoantwerpen.be), a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked in the software industry as a developer and consultant for several companies for 20 years and as a project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp for 10 years. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerp).

He wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails , Van Duuren Media .

In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way To Go , iUniverse .

In 2013, in collaboration with Dzenan Ridzanovic, he wrote Learning Dart and Dart Cookbook , both by Packt Publishing.

In 2014, he wrote Getting Started with Julia , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank the technical reviewers, especially Brian Anderson, Alfie John, and Anne-Marie Mission, for their many useful remarks that improved the text, and my wife, Christiane, for her support.

Anthony Miyaguchi is a computer science and engineering student at UCLA. He is active in the open source community and has worked on a variety of different projects, from embedded programming to web technologies. If he finds free time, he would like to make a dent in his collection of books.

Bharadwaj Srigiriraju is a computer science graduate from IIITDM, Jabalpur, who now works as a software developer at Chumbak, Bangalore. He is a technology enthusiast who loves to develop web apps and hack on (shiny) new technologies. He specializes in Python and firmly believes that Rust will replace C very soon. You can reach him at <.

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha is a programmer and physicist from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is involved with the Rust development team and writes and reviews books on several programming languages. He is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) developer and loves open source technology. He has been working with several science projects and some research projects at his university as well as in international laboratories. He enjoys designing algorithms and circuit theory. He volunteers at Mozilla by arranging events as a Mozilla representative (http://reps.mozilla.org/).

He is the president of a famous astronomical organization, CAM-SUST (http://camsust.org/). He loves working in teams and being associated with interesting projects.

His recent books include How You Should Design Algorithms , Easy Circuits for Kids , Wonder in Quantum Physics , and Fundamentals of Ruby .

You can contact him at <.

I would like to thank the author of this wonderful book and also Suzanne Coutinho and Nikita Michael for their help. This is a pretty good book on Rust, and I will recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Rust. I hope that the author writes more books on Rust, especially by developing games and some exciting things to let the common people know how rich the rust language is.

Tony Zou is currently pursuing his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo. He has been programming for 4 years and has worked on a few projects. He enjoys competitive programming and working with exciting new languages such as Rust.

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Preface

Rust is the new open source and compiled programming language that finally promises software developers the utmost safetynot only type safety but memory safety as well. The compiler carefully checks all uses of variables and pointers so that common problems from C / C++ and other languages, such as pointers to wrong memory locations or null references, are a thing of the past. Potential problems are detected at compilation time so that Rust programs execute at speeds that are comparable with their C++ counterparts.